Welcome to McLaughlin's Math Corner!Throughout the school year, I will be updating this website with information, websites, presentations, performance based instructional tasks and math based lesson plans. Please continue to check back each week!
New Insights to Teaching Math: Adjusting Mathematical Language to the Common Core
Implementing the new standards means letting go of a lot of old habits:
Old habit to eliminate: Defining equality as "same as"
The problem: This is mathematically incorrect and leads to misconceptions.
New habit to adopt: Defining equality as "same value as"
For example, 3 + 4 tells a different math story than 4 + 3, but they yield the same value of 7
(Kappan article "Why the Common Core Changes Math Instruction" by Valerie Faulkner)
Welcome to McLaughlin's Math Corner!Throughout the school year, I will be updating this website with information, websites, presentations, performance based instructional tasks and math based lesson plans. Please continue to check back each week!
New Insights to Teaching Math: Adjusting Mathematical Language to the Common Core
Implementing the new standards means letting go of a lot of old habits:- Old habit to eliminate: Defining equality as "same as"
The problem: This is mathematically incorrect and leads to misconceptions.- New habit to adopt: Defining equality as "same value as"
- For example, 3 + 4 tells a different math story than 4 + 3, but they yield the same value of 7
(Kappan article "Why the Common Core Changes Math Instruction" by Valerie Faulkner)Cool New Websites:Learn Zillion